So Frankly...

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

That time of year again...

It's that time of year when things get so busy that gaming just seems to fall by the wayside. Not that I want it to, but our family life is dominated by one thing - American football. No, I am not one of those football fanatics who watches constantly. (I am only a Notre Dame fanatic. There was a lot of positive in last week's loss, but I digress...) However, our 8th grade son plays on a team, and with practices four nights a week, we are running him around a lot. Furthermore, with homework added on to that, I have lost my primary gaming partner.

This past weekend was a holiday weekend here in the US - Labor Day. There certainly was labor (which seems to defeat the whole purpose of a holiday!), but there was picnicking and fishing too. As a result, I missed my normal Tuesday post. This day-late and dollar-short post will have to do.

I did manage to play more games of Onirim this past weekend. This is a solitaire card game (though it does have 2-player cooperative rules) with a dream-walking theme. It sounds strange, and it took a couple of games to get into it, but there are definitely some interesting decisions to be made. I'd have to say it has grown on me, and is my favorite solitaire game at the moment. While it isn't played with standard playing cards, the game isn't too expensive. Z-man Games makes a lot of good card games, and this is one.

(For those of you who are curious, Daniel's football team is 2-0. They beat their rivals 15-14 in a nail-biter, and won last night 33-0. If they win Saturday they will have had the highest number of wins they have had in four years. You do the math - they haven't been good in prior years!)